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die like flies

die like flies verb: synonym of drop like flies.

Verb

die like flies (third-person singular simple present dies like flies, present participle dying like flies, simple past and past participle died like flies)

  1. Synonym of drop like flies.
    • They must have been dying like flies here.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196
    Synonyms:
    drop like flies

Synonyms of die like flies

Forms of die like flies

third-person singular presentdies like flies
present participledying like flies
past participledied like flies
pastdied like flies

Questions about die like flies

What does die like flies mean?
Die like flies means synonym of drop like flies.
What part of speech is die like flies?
Die like flies is a verb.
What is the past tense of die like flies?
The past tense of die like flies is died like flies.

Words near die like flies in the dictionary

  1. die just how one lived
  2. die just like one lived
  3. die just the way one lived
  4. die laughing
  5. die liao
  6. die like flies
  7. die like one lived
  8. die off
  9. die on
  10. die on one's arse
  11. die on the vine

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